wee
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Open titlist, called the evening “completely insane” and said finding her best tennis in the wee hours of the morning was difficult.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026
"Everybody knew me as the wee girl with the marks," Laura explained.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
In the wee hours of Sunday, Herambh Karmarkar’s wife received two messages from her seafarer husband, who was aboard a ship that had just safely crossed the Strait of Hormuz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026
"Chile needs to grow and this bill makes it possible," Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz said after the chamber approved the reforms in the wee hours of Thursday.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
Oh, how I then wished that I could be such a wee creature, small enough to hide so well.
From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi
“I weer over to Churley yesterday,” said Sim, “and it reant all day.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
Denzelfden dag scheepten zij zich dus weer in, deden 16 Oct.
I’m sorry I misjudged him as I did, and I weer too hard upon him; but he hasn’t used me well, neither has Mrs Glaire.
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
“We-ell, Mister Tigg, we weer cleer beat at fust; an’ didn’t know what to do—neyther me’r my pertner.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
“Ay, lad, they weer made on him i’ the year one, and niver been off since.”
From The Parson O' Dumford by George Manville Fenn
To-day is Quentin's birthday and he loved his gifts, perhaps most of all the weest, cunningest live pig you ever saw, presented him by Straus.
From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt
D'ye mind the wee lassie that was sae still till she began to know ye—the weest one of them a'?
From Between You and Me by Sir Harry Lauder
“She had the weest, teentiest toes, And the leastest speck of a blackish nose, With great, great eyes”—“Coo, coo! coo, coo!”
From Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad by Daphne Dale
You're sure you've never regretted—never had the weest doubt that it might have been better with—someone else?
From The First Man by Eugene O'Neill
They wente up to the Saylis, These yemen all three; They loked est, they loked weest, They myght no man see.
From Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Fourth Series by Frank Sidgwick
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